Sofia_Thøgersen

Sofia Thøgersen

Sofia Thøgersen

Danish athlete (born 2002)

Sofia Thøgersen (born 6 July 2005) is a Danish middle distance and long distance runner. A multiple-time national champion, and the Danish national record holder over 1500 metres, in 2023 she became the youngest Danish athlete to compete at the World Athletics Championships.[1]

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Early life

Thøgersen joined Sparta Athletics and Running club in Østerbro when she was six years-old.[2]

Career

2021

In 2921, Thøgersen became the senior Danish champion over 1500m, aged 16 years-old.[3] Thøgersen won silver at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, in a 3000m world-leading time by an under-18 year-old athlete in Europe, of 9:16.43.[4] In November 2021, competing as one of the youngest athletes in the race, Thøgersen finished 15th at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships in Dublin.[5]

2022

She won gold at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships over 3000m in Jerusalem and also won bronze at the 2000m steeplechase at the same championship.[6] That year, she won two national titles indoors, over 1500 meters and 3000 meters.[7][8] She also retained her Danish senior champion outdoor title over 1500m in Alborg in June 2022.[9] She secured victory in the women’s U20 race at the Nordic Cross Country Championships in Kristiansand in November 2022.[10]

2023

In 2023, she retained her senior 1500m title in June 2023.[11] Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres, she became the youngest Danish competitor in championship history, and had to apply for time-off from her school in order to compete.[12] Although she didn’t qualify for the semi final, she ran a new national record time of 4:05.34.[13] Thøgersen also set a new national record time for the 3000m in 2023, running 8.53.39 at the Copenhagen Athletics Games in Østerbro, improving Anna Emilie Møller's 18-year record by 17 seconds.[14]

She defended her U20 women’s title at the Nordic Cross Country Championships in Reykjavík in November 2023.[15] Selected for the 2023 European Cross Country Championships in Brussels in December 2023, she won silver in the women's U20 race behind Innes FitzGerald.[16]

2024

In January 2024 in Metz, she broke the European indoor U20 record for the 3000 metres (8:50.26) breaking the previous mark (8:56.36) set by Konstanze Klosterhalfen of Germany, in 2016. Thøgersen's time was also a Danish indoor senior record, and made her the first Danish woman to break the 9:00-minute barrier indoors.[17] She competed in the women's 1500 metres race at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[18]

References

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